(Editor's Note. This is Nancy Jerominski's last column. Look for future Op-eds from her.)

Did you know that Nobel Prizes were awarded for determining the cause and cure for diabetes and for what actually causes cancer?
Neither did I.

Bernardo Houssay won the Nobel Prize in 1931 for finding the cause and the cure for diabetes. In 1947, Otto Warburg won the Noble Prize for discovering what causes cancer and how we can prevent it (www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/).

What they uncovered is decidedly not in line with most of our current "health care" recommendations. It seems we actually can prevent and cure cancer and diabetes.

Why aren't these men and women sanctified saints? Who wants this information kept secreted from the minds and eyes of sick, fat and tired America -- indeed the world?

Who to believe?

What happened to the H1N1 pandemic that was poised to "kill literally tens of thousands," a number screeched by a CDC expert from the media mountaintops last year? Who was set to make billions from the lemming-esque mentality our society practices with their television sets and newspapers?

And lest we turn that mentality to the trusted experts on the tube, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Oprah doc, owns 150,000 shares in SIGA Technologies, the company that makes the H1N1 vaccine he so enthusiastically pushes on the airwaves. He also opted not to vaccinate his own children (Natural News web letter, November 10, 2009).

When we look at how the CDC actually counted H1N1 deaths, we find it was far less lethal than other seasonal flu. What actually killed the poor folks who did succumb to the flu was pneumonia that set in because their immune systems were already compromised.

So how do we stay healthy in the first place? By eating well and taking good care of ourselves. We may get sick, but we most likely won't die.

Who to believe?

When I ask our politicians why we don't use sustainably grown local food in our schools, they tell me it's not realistic or cost effective.

Really? For whom?

State Rep. Dave Upthegrove, King County Councilwoman Julia Patterson, Sen. Ed Murray, Gov. Gregoire and President and Mrs. Obama have all received e-mails from me on this subject. Their silence is deafening.

Sustainable food from local sources keeps local money in local pockets. I always get the sense the politicians are chuckling in all their wisdom at my naiveté.

My simple Metabolic Accelerator program drops chronic Type 2 diabetes sufferers' blood sugar to normal in the first week! Who saves money and time to do other more enjoyable tasks? The patient! Who loses money? The drug companies, fast food and packaged food manufacturers and the specialty docs!

If employees and students are healthy because they've experienced the miracle of healing food, how does this impact attendance at work and school? How would the behavior of adults and children be impacted?

Healthy employees are more productive and easy-going. Healthy kids who aren't 30 pounds overweight are happier kids, they aren't picked on, they don't miss as much school and they don't have as many disciplinary issues.

And who's making all that money on junk food which is touted as healthy (flavored milk comes to mind) or off the pear-shaped obese children destined for Type 2 diabetes in their twenties?

I challenge all our politicians to walk their talk. Do they eat shop and buy local? An uncomplicated $99 per person program for 4 weeks is hardly earth shattering and the ripple effect potential is enormous.

True health care will not come in a bottle of pills or a wonder drug. It will come from sustainable food eaten the way we have for millennia.

As a wellness professional dedicated to the truth rather than financial gain, my vision is to put hospitals out of business by teaching people how wonderful these bodies we have are when we feed them correctly.

Our bodies want to do want we ask of them; they cannot perform on food that can sit on a shelf for a year.

I encourage all of us to become involved and demand better food. Once upon a time it was the wealthy who could afford the "good stuff": white flour, sugar and pasteurized milk. If one was fat, it was a status symbol along with the gout and diabetes one developed. It was the poor who lived off the land.

Today, it's the well-to-do who can afford sustainably grown food. Who ultimately suffers with all of this? It's not the wealthy.

Even if we just ate local fresh instead of diet packaged "food", our health would improve and healthy people mean a healthier economy.

We are doing a huge disservice to ourselves and our children by endorsing, buying and consuming SAD CRAP. We all deserve the nutritionally dense food that will keep us healthy.

What are you willing to do about it? If we don't save our bodies and our planet, who will?

DISCLAIMER
The views expressed in this column are for information only and not intended to replace your current medical protocols. Always consult your health practitioner before undertaking any dietary changes or exercise programs.